Do you want to shoot amazing astrophotography pictures with your DSLR camera?

I do. And this site is all about that.

Hey, I’m Paweł Białecki. I’m an Astrophotographer from Poland, and I run this site.

I don’t know how exactly you have found this site, but as you get here, I have one suspicion – you are interested in astrophotography.

If so, you have come to the right place!

At some point in my life, I wanted to start taking those beautiful astronomy pictures.

Summer Milky Way in Smedava, Czech Republic. My best wide-field picture of the Milky Way so far. I captured it with a DSLR (well, a mirrorless, actually) camera and a 12mm lens on a mobile equatorial tracking mount.

Milky Way, galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, constellations. I knew that there are people around the globe who photograph them from their backyards, without having access to the Hubble telescope in the space. I have been wondering for a long time how do they do that. So I started to dig online.

Flame and Horsehead Nebulae in Orion Constellation. One of my favorite deep-sky pictures. I took it with the same mirrorless camera (Fuji X-T20) and a small refractor telescope (check below).

Forums. Blogs. Reddit. Books. I read every single available resource about astrophotography I found. There was a lot of knowledge available, yet not easy to absorb for a total beginner like me then. People were using confusing words like tracking, stacking, or guiding, just to mention a few. They were communicating efficiently between themselves, but to understand those astrophotography terms for a total newbie, it was a challenge.

Then I decided. I’ll create a beginner-friendly astrophotography learning place. The Astro Photons.

Do you want to know HOW to take pictures like these with a DSLR (or mirrorless) camera?

Fun fact: only three pictures from this mini-gallery are taken with a telescope (that SkyWatcher Evostar 72ED above). From the rest left, two I captured with a telephoto lens (Rokinon/Samyang 135mm f/2.0), and one with a wide-angle lens (Rokinon/Samyang 12mm f/2.0).

Astro Photons goal is to provide the most comprehensive, detailed, objective, and beginner-friendly tutorials and resources about deep-sky and Milky Way astrophotography.

If you want to start your journey into astrophotography, you are in the right place!

Astro Photons blog is the place for you if:

you are interested in astrophotography (mostly Milky Way and Deep-Sky)

you are a beginner (and maybe you don’t even have your astrophotography gear yet)

you want to improve your photons-gathering and processing skills

you love the beauty of the night sky

you are looking for astrophotography tips, tricks, and first-hand gear reviews

The Andromeda Galaxy captured from my balcony in less than one hour.

A few things about me

Who am I

I’m a 29 old guy born and living in Poland, Europe. I bought my first astrophotography gear in September 2017 (Fujifilm X-T20 camera, Rokinon/Samyang 12mm f/2 lens, and a Vanguard tripod). I started untracked but upgraded to tracked astrophotography very quickly with buying an equatorial mount (Fornax Lightrack II).

I live in a small city (twenty thousand people) next to Poland, Czech, and Germany tripoint. Light pollution is a problem but with the right filters I down it to the minimum. My closest dark-sky area (Czech village Smědava) is around 40 minutes by car (that Milky Way at the beginning of this page was shoot there).

What can you expect from me in the future

Astro Photons is my main project now. I spend a few hours daily working on new astrophotography materials (and hopefully improving my English). I have several times more ideas for articles than my capabilities to create.

I run this site for people like me – amateur astrophotographers looking for astrophotography tutorials and resources. It’s fueled by the pure passion to the night sky. If you want to start doing or improve your astrophotography skills, let’s do it together.

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